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    "id": 62117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajembe",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ramadhan Seif Kajembe",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Motion. I am very much concerned about the fertilizer plant that was supposed to be put up by Ken-Ren Chemicals and Fertilizers Company Ltd. This plant was to be built in my constituency at a place known as “Chaani”. This happened many years ago, and the project was abandoned by past regimes. An agreement was reached amongst the Government of Kenya, the fertilizers company and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA); that in the event that project lapsed, the ownership of the piece of land on which the factory was to be built would revert back to the KPA. The project did not take off. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the Member of Parliament for that area, together with my residents, we approached the KPA and asked them to give us a piece of land. The people wished to put up a high school. We also requested that part of that land be availed for settlement of squatters. The Provincial Administration wrote to the KPA, but they did not get any reply at all. As the MP for Changamwe, I applied on behalf of my people for a piece of land for the same purpose, but I did not get any reply from the KPA. A number of land grabbers have gone to that area and attempted to get that piece of land but we have been standing firm and saying that it will not happen. I have been consulting with colleagues in the Government with a view to having that piece of land given to the people of Chaani to put up a settlement scheme for themselves, because majority of them are squatters. We have also requested to be given part of that land to be used for putting up a high school for the local people, but the KPA has been very difficult in terms of accepting this idea from the people."
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